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Description
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Baron Casimir von Werne at Werneholm is suing the young big farmer Gunnar Jansson at Eklunda farm for a waterfall on the border between the estates, Lundaforsen. The outcome of the case is of utmost importance for the indebted baron, not least because he is pressured by director Axel Hall. The Baron's daughter Inga comes home from a school stay in France and is the subject of the director's so far gentlemanly courtship. Inga herself is becoming increasingly curious about the far less gentlemanly but virile trotting fanatic Gunnar Jansson. She begins a rather advanced flirtation with her father's arch-enemy. At a meeting in Werneholm's stable, she drives Gunnar's emotions so far that he loses control and embraces her. She responds by giving him a rap with her riding whip. He reacts brutally, tears his whip and throws her with wounded contempt in the hay. The hostile atmosphere between Werneholm and Eklunda becomes somewhat more conciliatory when Gunnar's stable boy Lennart offers to ride one of von Werne's horses in a race and wins. Shortly afterwards, Inga falls off her horse during a hunting party, faints and is taken care of by Gunnar, whereby the relationships are further deepened under mutual excuses for previous events. In the same vein as Inga during a fishing trip rejects an approach from director Hall by throwing a salmon in his face, the message comes that Gunnar won the case of Lundaforsen in the Supreme Court. Hall tries to squeeze himself into a partnership with Gunnar by threatening to otherwise force the Werne family away from the ancestral estate. Gunnar abruptly rejects his propaganda, instead offering the baron companionship and uniting his destinies with Ingas. (http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=film&itemid=3656#plot-summary)
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